Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

  1. At some point, you need to figure out that the bureaucrats have their OWN self interests, and giving them power makes them targets for bribes, coercion and flattery. Fauci is a tiny man with an ego the size of the Empire State Building. He's locked at the hip with Big Pharma and has been since before most of Jimmy's fans were even born.
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  2. Dude. It's not social media that's amplifying our fears of a slippery slope. It's 70 or 80 years of free-fall DOWN that slippery slope that makes us freak. We KNOW where this shit leads, because we know HISTORY, which you apparently do not. Maybe you're great on current events or technology, but I'm a minute in and thinking you're either naïve or you think the listener is. Small increases in authority today lead to great woe tomorrow. It's the nature of power, the nature of humans with power, and the nature of humans who SEEK power. Anything they can do FOR you, today, is 10 things they can eventually do TO you, tomorrow, and will almost certainly TRY to do to you, eventually.
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  3. I went years with really exercising other than whatever work came up that needed doing. But when I had a serious injury, not long back, I'd drag myself to the stationary bike and put MILES on it, 'til my legs started coming back, for real. Without the injury(ies), I don't think I'd've had the will to hop on the bike, and ratchet up how long and how hard I could go at it. But I'd ask myself "Do you want to walk, again? Then you gotta do this. I KNOW the toughest part is getting on the thing. Then the toughest part is the first couple minutes, which pass at a snail's pace. Then as I get close to my target time, with less time ahead than behind, it becomes a sort of Zen thing, and the minutes go by in about 10 seconds of subjective time. Then I'm getting to the goal, and I feel like I can make those pedals go around another 10 seconds. Why not push it to 20? Heck, 12 minutes and 30 seconds? I can do another 30 seconds standing on my head and push the workout to 13 minutes. At first, I was proud just to get the damn thing to spin for a minute...
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  4. I never had any interest in a fanny pack until my friend showed me how his 92F fit perfectly in one, and how innocent it looked. Carrying it in front, his first move towards his gun looked like a frightened person, instinctively covering his you-know-what. I often travel with a pistol in a fanny pack, but I rarely wear it, and mostly out in camp, alone, when one is always in reach, but I've never taken it with me into a crowded place, and I just generally avoid crowded places. My pistol is more for defense against predators (wolves, coyotes, lynx, puma, and bear) and pissed-off ungulates, because I don't run real fast, but I enjoy the woods. A healthy man with a long stout staff (LOL!) might hold off wolves on down, including mountain lion. The sound and fury of hot lead can give you a fighting chance against a bear. But nobody wants to test the theory. People presented with the situation would feel better with the opportunity to at least try. We none of us are Anthony Hopkins and no bear set on killing a man in his situation would fail in the task.
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  5. Dateline 2001 on the David Spade story. He prob'ly was 36 in 2001.
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  6. I don't care if their beer let me walk on water, I wouldn't buy it because I disagree with their agenda(s).
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  7.  @Tampa_tom  The weed is why you're sitting down, quiet, in a lonely place to get high. And you tend to stay quiet. It ain't like the weed makes you rambunctious, all of a sudden. If you're quiet, and mindful of the wind direction, you can get eyes on all kinds of critters.
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  8. I saw a mountain lion in Umatilla National Forest, once. It seemed as though its nose was in the brush on the far side of the road before its tail was out of the brush on the near side of the road. It puts a whole new spin on tent-camping.
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  9. The wolves you were smooching were not a hungry pack in midwinter.
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  10. What really bugs me is that they build those devices to wear out in a year or two, when they should last a lifetime. It's the same with the car industry. Doing it the wasteful way WE do it just guarantees that most of the world won't have cars. There's no reason cars need to be as expensive as they are or break down as fast as they do. There are soldiers and militia around the world running around on 4-banger Toyota pickups, who thumb their noses at superpowers. A couple guys on a pickup can easily carry tank-killers and copter-killers. Of course they don't want us to have gasoline-powered vehicles. And an EV that can perform anywhere close to a gasoline-powered vehicle are for rich people, only. And the raw materials used in those EVs are provided by slave labor, as you detail in this video. These people don't really care about human beings OR the planet. They use propaganda and the power of the state to enrich themselves, and shame anyone who calls them out.
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  11. I think the levee's gonna break, and there'll be an upstart platform get traction against YouTube. YouTube's censorship/curatorship is eventually going to spell its doom. They can't stop everybody from building platforms with as good or better look and feel. But the companies like Bit-Chute need to build better/slicker platforms. It defies belief that there aren't superior-to-YouTube asynchronous chat clients for the comments sections. Tom's right about the need to create a proper environment. But his MISTAKE is trying to do it all, himself. Instead, reach out to your regular commenters and train them to monetize their time online making money doing what they enjoy. Train a strong cadré of "hall monitors" who understand the essence of what you're doing. You can get pretty smart people who are THRILLED to make $20/hour doing really good work for you. Think about how much money you have. You can afford to pay a couple helpers. Lots of commenters will curate your comments for you for next to nothing, just feel really good about the extra status they have, and the power to block trolls from the comments. Build a community with intense personal effort, but make sure that the effort is aimed at eliminating YOUR effort. The way the Thorman brothers built up Arrowheadpride.com under the sbnation.com umbrella is a case in point. I think Joel and Cris are way up the administrative ladder, now, making good money. As an individual content creator, you would just stay in your creative space, with motivated, well-paid helpers. Trouble is that most content-creators don't want to mess with managing people. Hmmm. Maybe there's a niche for outfits that'll police your content the way you want it policed, by people who get you, for pretty low fees.
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  12. "I'm not an adrenalin junkie," he says, right before he describes his addiction.
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  13.  @DonBean-ej4ou  Pookie approves this comment.
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  14. Yes, and everybody with any sense already knows that when these people use the phrase 'our democracy,' they're not talking about the people's democracy, but THEIR democracy, meaning the consensus of the donor class and the political class. I hope that the people are reaching herd immunity on this. I think Trump's victory, in spite of all the censorship and provable disinformation from the 'our democracy' crew, suggests that we are building up herd immunity. What scares me is all the "smart" people who are useful idiots in government censorship efforts.
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  15. Or "Listen!" That's when I shut off.
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  16. I don't believe in this "living wage" stuff. It's feel-good policy that doesn't really help the people at the bottom who are affected. It's like the actors winning the strike in Hollywood, but then half of them being unemployed, because the industry's dying back. "Yes. We guarantee we will hire 9 writers for every project from now on." "Great! Sign me up for the next project!" "We don't do projects, any more. Sorry." It's the same with "living wage" or "minimum wage" legislation. What drives up wages is prosperity. You start running into labor shortages and employers have to compete with one another for good workers.
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  17. Sounds more like playing games than a creative collaboration.
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  18. Good, knowledgeable conversation, so far @ 10:38. To me, anybody using a product for free has no expectation of quality. You want better content? Pay for what you want. I just took a big step, today, and cut every nickel out of cable t.v. offerings. Joe's spot on with the observation that since advertisers are paying for ALL of the free stuff, you're going to get corporate media, which, regardless of its good or bad intentions, is always going to pander to the complainers who are the biggest threat to their income streams, and the loudest complainers are the authoritarian, so-called liberal types. A conservative is USED to the public square despising their positions, so they just shrug and move on. internet's only been with our species for a very short time. We're adapting to it as we speak. Most of what government has done, beyond building the basic backbone, has been pretty toxic. People should have total customization of their own experience, and not through the platform's curation. The platform should just give the customer the most options. if you think a person's comments are toxic, you should be able to remove them from your individualized experience. No fuss. No muss. The other person needn't be notified, in fact, should NOT be notified. The troll should not be able to use notifications to set the hook in their next victim. I think that's the perfect way for society to deal with trolls. Just learn to turn that voice off, for yourself. Then the crazy people (Maybe I'm one of them) is shouting at the top of their lungs, and are totally frozen out of the conversation because nobody in the room hears them. I don't think a 12-year-old should have the right to hijack adult conversations. Maybe I'm in a TOYO site, and we're talking about making room for a 3.4 liter in a '93 Toyota pickup that comes with a 3.0 liter, stock. When the 12-year old says "You slept with your sister" you should have a turn-this-off switch that requires no mediation by the platform. A well-run platform should have that option. YouTube does not. YouTube allows you to report someone but not to take agency in a totally nonviolent way and use software a 10-year-old could write to have an "off" switch for people who are rude. Or maybe the kid just interrupts with something else that's not rude, but more a 1 + 1 = 2 question in the middle of Calculus Ii. You can calmly ignore someone, without any hard feelings in an online setting. We really - I really - need to grow up and migrate off the corporate/government platforms.
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  19. I think the tiger's coloration is really good camouflage for their natural environment.
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  20. I thought Puritans were ancient history. That kind of person is now a fervent atheist, but just as judgemental and controlling.
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  21. I've been injured many times, and I'm here to tell you Nietzsche was full of shit. Every time you get hurt, it takes a little something out of you, and any one of those incidents can break you, even though you survive it. Don't believe me, come take a look at my scars and twisted limbs. It ain't pretty. Shit don't work so good. And I don't buy that "It's inner strength," either. You get hurt too bad, you might spend the rest of your life with a nuclear case of PTSD or a crusty shell that you can never break out of for the rest of your life. I chickened out at the CAT scan, the other day. Busted the head of my femur clean through. Told 'em to knock my ass out. Put me on "blockers" and they STILL fucked it up and put me in agony. Moving badly injured individuals on a sheet is a job for MEN or very strong women. Not little girls who want to prove they're as good as a man. A man's strong enough to lift you like you're thistledown. Women will heave and puff out their chests and sneer at you for screaming. I didn't scream, but I let loose an 'F' bomb during the move and told the girl "When there's one part that's badly injured and 3 people lift 3/4 of the body perfectly in unison and the one holding the injury is letting that leg flop around, you messed up." Well, I told her that (without cussing) after the spasms subsided. And in the special case of head injuries, ask an NFL player. The more you take, the more vulnerable you become.
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  22.  @DarkShadow-lb2gb  : Nietszhe's most famous quote: If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger. I should've known better than to assume people here actually read stuff.
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  23.  @DarkShadow-lb2gb  : It came up because they were talking about how Rousey didn't seem the same/had a hard time coming back. And I'm poster child for comebacks, and I'm here to tell you it gets harder every single time. Then I gave you too much information. I didn't mean to hurt you. But that's OK. It just made you stronger.
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  24. Nah. Carrot Top was always his own guy. Big fan of both him and Gallagher. I can see why Gallagher would consider him a direct competitor and have a chip on his shoulder. Carving out a career in comedy is highly competitive. It's pretty much a zero-sum game, and you're going to notice other guys getting gigs that you wanted.
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  25. When I was a boy, there were stories all over the news about Thalidomide, approved for pregnant mothers with morning sickness. Kids born with flippers. Unpossible, because muh FDA.
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  26. Just remember they've got ex-CIA embedded in media, everywhere. Take what all these guys say with a grain of salt. They'll seem open-minded and clear-sighted, and they'll plant a bunch of outdated and toxic neocon notions throughout. By my estimation, Putin's the only guy in the entire thing who appears to be a true statesman. In the setting in which he lives and the forces that act to destroy what prosperity and liberty there is, "reasonable measures" can seem very bad from the outside. I don't like all of his methods, but he's turned so many things around for the better for the Russian people, and you see how our own leaders appear to be the sinister foes of liberty, prosperity and free expression, all the wars they've started, all the propaganda WE use, all the people WE censor, de-person and de-platform, we've got our OWN bed to make and our OWN house to clean up, before we sacrifice the lives and way of life for millions across the globe, including within our own borders.
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  27. He's a socialist. What's worse, he's got a formal education that makes everybody think he's better than everybody else.
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  28. He admits going in he didn't read Snowden's book. He participates more when he has more of a clue.
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  29. The more knowledgeable you are about what you're searching, the more obvious it is how your searches are being manipulated to show you what THEY want you to see, and not what YOU want to see, starting with advertisements "related to" your query, whether they have any relation or not. "Well, 'the second world war' DOES have the word 'the' in it, and so does 'the new Camry,' so..."
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  30.  @tonyg5132  You'd be surprised at how many companies place their principles above short-term gain. That doesn't mean anybody except a money-launderer sets out to lose money. Giving back is a great way to build brand loyalty. This ESG shit is corporatization of virtue, and it is not very virtuous.
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  31. First time I saw Nicholas Cage was in "Valley Girl." Didn't like him.
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  32. Alert to all duck hunters: Bring your gear.
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  33. Can you imagine how strong that string bean is?
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  34. Sad thing about human history is that a lot of the most interesting bits were wiped out by floods when the ice sheets retreated.
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  35. The fact that they DELIBERATELY make these phones disposable, so you will buy a new one, is an atrocity against the planet and human life. Your solid-state phone should last you a lifetime and be repairable for a lifetime, as should your vehicle. All durable goods should be truly durable. We consumers should demand it.
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  36. As an honest so-called liberal, Jon Stewart is quick to point out the madness, but lives in denial of his own hand in creating the institutional framework that feeds the madness. Who'd've thought that making government responsible for everyone from cradle to grave would cause mental illness, dependency, and low IQ to proliferate? Everyone, except so-called liberals. Liberal was a good thing when it meant treating people the same and getting the aristocracy off our backs. Liberal is a bad thing when it seeks to usher in a new age of rule by aristocrats. When you look at the highest offices in the land and the top levels of the bureaucracy, you see sons and daughters following daddy and mommy into the "family business," with an inside track to occupying the same or very similar high offices, JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL ARISTOCRACIES DID, before liberals threw the bastards out and began the Great Experiment in Self-Government that put USA on top and kept it on top, until creeping forms of aristocracy crept in through bloated and powerful institutions created and perpetuated by liars calling themselves liberals.
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  37. Progressives like this guy can always see how the corruption works, but they still love big government and vote for Democrats. smh
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  38. People blaming other people for the tragic, brutish existence imposed by Nature on ALL of us. Of course, they wouldn't have TIME to hate everyone for their plight, if Western Civilization hadn't afforded them the privileges of real progress. What we have isn't perfect, but scrapping that progress and embracing a murderous ideology that killed hundreds of millions in the 20th Century is sheer madness. Sadly, that madness sounds perfectly sane to young people who lack the historical context, who are being spoon-fed this nonsense by people WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER, in an educational institutions that systematically deprive them of that historical context and the long, hard road to where women CAN steam-roll everybody just by acting sufficiently upset, in an essentially compassionate society that doesn't like oppression.
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  39. Maybe the would-be censors use us to pinpoint the videos to be obliterated. "Here's one Woody's sharing with one of his buddies. It must be something we don't like." Saves them the time and computing power and human resources to locate and destroy content they don't like.
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  40. Yes. 99% of the erosion in the American Southwest desert is ALSO from rain (water erosion), despite its usually arid conditions. This guy says that the Sphinx must be over 10,000 years old because there hasn't been rain in Egypt for thousands of years. That's bullshit. It rains there. In fact, it SNOWED there very recently. It was a freak snow, but it did snow. When it doesn't rain very often, and there's no vegetation mantling that limestone, the rate of erosion from a single rain event is very very high. Ask anybody who's been caught in a gully during a cloudburst in Arizona (a very stupid place to be, btw). This guy's really smart, but he either mis-spoke or he's talking half out of his ass. Yes, a sandstorm can quickly erode your face, if you're out in it, but even in desert, it's WATER that does most of the work eroding outcrops. It's why limestone is a cliff-former in deserts. Cap it with some nice sandstone (that erodes, but isn't generally water-soluble), and it'll give you wondrous structures like the Grand Canyon. This doesn't disprove his hypothesis that archaeologists don't have their shit together. Just listen to them arguing with each other about calculated dates in the Bible, or putting dates on a Clovis point (flint arrowheads/spearpoints) in North America. The one thing he DOES get right is the paucity of evidence and the surplus of opinion on these matters. It turns out that a lot of the dates archaeology establishment has accepted for decades (that supposedly disprove the Bible) were wrong, and calculations from solid scholars and unbiased archaeologists are starting to align quite nicely with Biblical writings. I think the Bible and other ancient (sacred) texts DO chronicle some major catastrophes that actually took place. Velikovsky (if he were alive) would tell you that the planets in our solar system have done a bit of wandering in (poorly) recorded (by Bronze-Age primitives) history, especially in the histories that were handed down orally over the generations BEFORE the written word. He claims that Venus and Mars both had near misses with Earth after themselves being knocked out of orbit by meteor strikes, and that mythology records these events. No wonder Mars and Venus are part of Greek/Roman pantheon. I don't believe everything he said, but his alternate history of Earth squares very nicely with the Bible and other ancient texts, and archaeologists are starting to crank out results that are more in line with Biblical claims than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Don't get me wrong. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you the world is 4,000 years old, because it says so in the Bible. That's easily disproved by the mile-deep sediments in the Grand Canyon, which were deposited slowly, over millions of years, under processes we understand very well, occurring in real-time as we speak. You don't get perfectly graded (grains of same size) 1-inch-high foreset beds and tiny ripple marks from rock that was laid down in one cataclysm. If it were all laid down at once, the sediments would be un-graded, which is to say that big chunks and little chunks would be buried simultaneously, and you'd get flood structures which are in evidence all over the world, in spots, but no way in hell did they form miles of perfectly graded and uniformly bedded sandstones that cover 100s or even 1000s of square miles. Also, either one of those two guys in the video could break me in half by accident.
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  41. But liberals want the state to administer and pay for health care. That gives the state all the excuse it needs to control what you put in your body, acting on behalf of the taxpayer. I'm all for legalizing drugs and holding people strictly accountable for their behavior. If they steal or commit acts of violence against others, no tolerance for that. But I don't want to pay for the health consequences of a coke or heroin addict's bad choices. I feel the same way about the morbidly obese. Eat all you want, all you crave. But don't expect me to foot the bill for your diabetes. The farther down this so-called "liberal" road we go, the closer we come to the government telling us we can't have sugar, fat, or even meat in our diet. It will be "liberals" leading the culture wars against fat people. Just wait. It's coming.
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  42. Cope harder, Bill!
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  43. Twitter files laid bare what we already knew: The U.S. Government actively censors political speech, in clear and direct violation of the U.S. Constitution. It uses "liasons" and NGO cutouts (that it funds) to do some of the heavy lifting, but it has no problem finding eager minions in top spots throughout corporate America.
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  44. Yes, I kind of feel sorry for the woke liberals of whom you speak. I don't hate them. They've been with us since the beginning of time. I kind of fear them, though. That Puritanical zeal comes from something that's missing in their mental makeup. They so want to be smart and be seen as smart. They so want to be virtuous and be seen as virtuous. Following the crowd as you understand the crowd, is a self-defense/survival mechanism by which they try to fit in when they really don't have any idea what's right or wrong, but they focus on what others seem to be doing, saying, and thinking. It's all very sad, really, but it's also very dangerous. You can be the most enlightened person in the world and be crushed by them.
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  45. I heard it put this way the other day: Do you hold an idea or does the idea have a hold on you? Sadly, people who have wisdom always have doubts. This makes them vulnerable to fools who have no doubts.
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  46. Yeah. Entertainers are usually not very scholarly, are they? Read one book and all of a sudden they think they're world-class experts. Or worse, read one book and then read several more pushing the same bullshit, and they start thinking "I've got confirmation!" while ignoring 99% of the literature that's out there, because it's much easier to just read shit that's peddled to lay persons as factual.
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  47.  @xerotolerant  Yes.
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  48.  @GLDENGLOVES  : Meh. A lovely girl such as she, who chooses fighting as a career is already fuckin' cray-cray. All these fuckin' MMA fighters are fuckin' crazy. But if you have that insane warrior's heart, you seek the BEST to test yourself against. Meh. WTF do I know. My craziness is that of a weakling breaking himself on challenges these MoFos would laugh at! I don't see bitterness in this interview. She's not throwin' shade. She's just speaking truth as she understands it, having been there, before, as far as this idiot can tell. When I look at Rousey, it reminds me of Gaithje. Made it hella far on natural gifts, but to be the best, she can't just stand in front of a great striker and overpower her. Fresh off watching that fight, it looks like she'd already had her bell rung before she ever got a chance go for the take-down, and going for a take-down with an addled brain just kept her noggin in reach of some devastating punches. No head movement. No nothing. Just "I gotta get in close."
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  49. Football helmets are also pretty behind-the-times. Rigid outer shell? I think even this semi-enlightened treatment of protective fight gear misses the main harm done by sparring and fighting, which is brain injury. I think the improved foam MADE for fighting is much better than the seat-cushion foam they seem to use. But I think the human toll is far greater from even the BEST gloves. Maybe your metacarpal SHOULD break, rather than moving a guy's whole head in ways it's not designed to move. I'm not a big fan of hand protection. The fight game $$$$ would be in danger, if fighters were injuring their hands. But as a guy who's broken just about every bone in his hands, it sucks, but at least my BRAIN isn't scrambled. But it's more important for the sport to protect the hands, because of $$$$.
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  50. New rule: Campaigns may only accept donations from individuals and no individual may donate more than $1,000. No corporation may make any political speech. If its members wish to, let them do it with their own money, not speaking for or from the corporation. Yes, political action committees are corporations. As long as they limit donations to $1000, they're in that same boat with other political campaigns. Soros money? Illegal. Gates money? Illegal. Zuckeberg money? Illegal. Bezos money? Illegal. Let them contribute up to $1,000 to the cause of their choice, like everyone else. The reason there's so much dark and dirty money is because the Uni-Party likes it this way. Same with the southern border. All this nonsense could be cleaned up overnight if they really wanted to clean it up. My conclusion? Democrats AND Republicans are crooks.
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